ABSTRACT
Personal pronouns can be further categorized into subject pronouns (e.g. English I, he, she, we, they) and object pronouns (e.g. English me, him, her, us, them). An object pronoun can function either as the direct object (like English me in ‘He hit me’) or as the indirect object (like English me in ‘He gave me a present’). Personal pronouns also occur after prepositions (e.g. ‘behind me’, ‘to them’ etc.). I/me and we/us are so-called first person pronouns referring to or including the speaker. You is a second person pronoun referring to the person or persons addressed. He/him, she/her, it and they/them are all third person pronouns used to refer to people or things other than the speaker and the person addressed.
